How To Change Bad Karma, Bad Luck, and Bad Circumstances To Create A Better Life

by Robert Wilkinson

Through the years I've heard many complain that they feel like they have bad karma or bad luck. I've also heard many who thought that by "turning it over to God" somehow their lives would change for the better. Today we examine how we can consciously cooperate to make our lives a more joyous adventure.

This is an article I published 3 years ago, with many additions and subtractions. The last time I published a link to the original article, I prefaced what you're about to read with this:

Due to on-going stressful aspects in the collective field, it's important to focus on what we can do to maintain optimism and productive momentum during this time.

Today we're going to re-examine... issues of negative mental states, unfortunate karma or "luck," and what is available for us to use for ours and others' benefit as we navigate the tides and waves of life. You will find many gems to consider and use to make your mind, feelings, and life into more positive states of Being-ness than you may have imagined before now.

This article is a useful reminder of what we can do to counter the prevailing negative "atmospheres." I believe we have more power to change our karma, and therefore our "destiny," than we usually think. It does take some degree of self discipline, applying a higher Love, Wisdom, and Intelligence. Over time these help us succeed in transmuting the negative to the positive, suffering to compassion, and ignorance to Higher Awareness.

Those who are unhappy or in difficulties, having a hard time with their life choices, often believe that by surrendering to "a higher power" their life will be better in the future. While surrendering to a "Higher Power" is always a good thing to do, we still have to do our own part in participating in bringing good karma out of bad, or better "luck" for ourselves in the future.

Our birth chart shows how to time our life choices correctly. All "bad luck" or "bad Karma" are the results of prior causes we can and should correct in the moment we confront these.

No "bad luck" or "bad karma" has the power that our Eternal Consciousness has, since they are impermanent forms created by perception. Stop giving power to these negative states. We can transmute and reverse much that brings suffering by being conscious on a level beyond these things.

We start with choosing to make "good karma" and "good luck." WE create all the "good luck" there is in Heaven and on Earth by taking responsibility to choose wise actions at critical moments. Just remember that it may take us some time to turn the ocean liner of our life and point it in a better direction.

We all have past karmas to fulfill, usually through people and circumstances. These teach us how to move out of unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and actions, as these behaviors create "bad luck" and "bad karma" in our future.

We have the power to turn misfortune into beneficial and altruistic thoughts, words, feelings, and deeds if we so choose. By doing that we lessen our problems in the future, and create beneficial "karma" or "luck" by virtue of our heart's ability to attract that which is its perfect delight. In fact, we are doing or not doing this every moment we think, feel, and act.

We all have had moments when we are weak in Spirit and yield to the delusion that the source of our suffering is beyond our ability to cure. That's a universal part of the human experience. These moments are a challenge for us to rise above our "mind suffering over its own suffering," and take responsibility for cultivating our Highest intention, regardless of outer circumstances.

When we are weak, we humans also tend to seek the cure in other things and people. There is nothing wrong with knowing we need a healer, but we must cooperate with the cure.

That is the secret to all rituals, mantras, all affirmations, as well as all actions that produce beneficial results. It is true that many times a "ritual," "mantra," "affirmation," prayer or some form of "karma yoga" done on our behalf by another has a concrete beneficial effect and "good things happen to us." That is because we pick up on the vibration and choose to align with it, whether we know it or not, or how and why it works.

There are times a Saint, Sage, or another high being or several are allowed by their higher Karma of Service to put out such a powerful Thoughtform, such as pujas and "demonstrations" (a la Florence Scovel Shinn). These thought forms create a field in which we can move forward, consciously or unconsciously, so that each of us can become that which we seek.

Still, while High Beings may create "Heaven's Luck" for us, it is only so we can consciously cooperate with our Highest Self, become strong, and learn to steer our lives in beneficial directions. That takes applying our Spiritual Will toward a greater good.

We are part of a group work, and external things show us our connectedness within a greater process. When we are strong, we offer cures to other things and people, and willingly accept the cures offered to us, since we are part of a larger Ray group Soul.

Even to believe that someone calling for a "demonstration" on your behalf has more power to do that than YOU is somewhat of an illusion. You and that which heals you are ONE.

Everything in life, whether pleasurable or painful, serves to help us grow out of giving our power to external things to hinder us. When we are aligned with our Higher Self, we have the power to send out vibrations that attract whatever is beneficial to our highest intention and evolution.

Spirit, God or something "higher up in the universe" might very well look after us and guide our footsteps in our life's path, since our lives are eternally the field in which we live and breathe and have our Being. And yet, from one angle of vision, the God or Spirit that guides us is not separate from our Highest Self, our Atma-Buddhi-Manas operating at a subtle but very high plane of consciousness.

The Teacher, the Teaching, and the Taught all exist simultaneously. There is no separation between you and your Highest Self except in your lower self's identification with the parts of you that suffer.

Our "Higher Triad" is our Spiritual Body. This is the source from which all our life forms, feelings, and ideas result. Our Highest Self is not separate from our Father-Mother God in Heaven that is ONE. We ARE the God we seek.

There is no power but God. Repeat this: THERE IS NO POWER THAN GOD. No thing has power. Only God has power. Thou art That. Open to the Way, and God will show you, since YOU have the power to know God.

Again, the healer, the healing, and the healed are ONE. We may be human, but we are simultaneously and indivisibly Eternal Consciousness, a spark of Divine Mind that is Omnipresent, Omniscient, and Omnipotent. We have more power, wisdom, love, and intelligence than we think.

Comments

I LOVE this article, Robert! It encapsulates my journey of the last 5 years. Not that I ever felt I was having bad luck or bad karma, but was feeling mosh-pitted by the circumstances I was in and having trouble fighting my way out of it. Part of what helped was realizing I always had the power to change something but the coupe de gras was identifying the feeling that some circumstance 'felt' wrong and what the feeling was, and then figuring out what needed to be changed. I found patterns of behavior that left me feeling terrible at times. And once I started making these identifications, and the appropriate changes with emphasis on consideration of doing the right and loving thing, well - it all started changing for the better. It's been an amazing journey!

And to your credit, during this time I found your website with its powerful messages of love and light which underlines all you say and do. Astrology is one thing, but I know others have commented on this as well and it's so true - you teach Astrology to be utilized as a tool to measure the external in order to give us patience with ourselves to accept what's out there and make better choices for ourselves, our loved ones and society in general. You've never given us the message of bad things coming that we are unable to do anything about. I appreciate your writings so very much and treasure your message! Thank you, Robert. So very much.

I like to watch the family movies, like "a little house on the prairie" (the family of Ingalls), where the good people beat the bad. It helps me - unconsciously. And there is also humor in series. There I can learn to laugh myself when I make some (small) mistakes. ;)

Heli: Perfection is an illusion; we are all unique and therein lies our intrinsic value; Hermann Hesse: “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” Be yourself; you do not need to earn respect for being what you are; as Van Morrison wrote:

I was pretending all the time
I was givin' everybody what they wanted
And I lost my peace of mind
And all I ever wanted was simply just to be me
All you ever need is the truth
And the truth will set you free

I've truly enjoyed "Heaven's Luck" in my life and still doubted, frightened by the big decisions life has brought in front of me. A few months ago I asked you about surrendering to "Higher Power" and you gave a similar response than above - only a bit shorter ;) And it really has changed my perspective and with it - my life.

So thank you, Robert. I hope everyone will have the benefit of helping themselves with your wise words.

The truth is that evil is a man-made idea. This erring human belief in evil or bad, has taken this planet down a very material road. Imagine if everyone knew that there is only good, then imagine if everyone acted as such? John Lennon got it.

I deeply appreciate your words here, which touched me prfoundly and push me to search and stay resolute to unearth the truth within me.
It is difficult, frigthtening and isolative to search for firm ground and truth within; I will keep your words with me for when the next time I falter or am making mistakes which overwhelm me.

Your site and words are always potent in a very positive way.
Thanks very much again.

Jan, you make a very good point. It brought to mind for me the Whorfian Hypothesis. If we cannot name it, we don't think much about it. During Shakespeare's time, there was no word for homosexual, which suggests that it was just not an issue. Imagine that.

I'm taking comfort in this last line by Robert: We have more power, wisdom, love and intelligence than we think. Good. I'll take that!

I´ve been going to healers for almost 10 years - and I think my life is improving - bit by bit. The way my parents treated/abused me has been repeating it self - like a curse - but now I am quite careful which type of people I choose to have around..
I am a sensitive soul with powers so I guess I had to go through very dark situations..

I like your articule. I have never had to read anything like it. I have been going through a rough road since I was a little boy. Coming from a polygamous home with 3wives who hate each other and only did very bad things to one another,s children..
I lost my father 3years ago and that, honesly, was a turning point. I started loosing everything I ever worked for; my house, my savings and everything, except my head which thankfully is still on my shoulder.
Anyway, I know that coming from Africa has seriously contributed to my bad luck, since I have had prophesies of step-moms casting spells on me. Though, I first did not believe in those things, but then I started seeing the reality of it.
I just need a way to get out of tyhis bad spells that has been following me since I was a boy.
My email addressis tadebs1@yahoo.com
I would appreciate if anyone can help.

Hi Tony - Though some cultures give much power to thought forms that are not good in intention, around here that sort of thinking cannot exist. The illusion gets no credibility here even if it seemed powerful in other circumstances. I am very sorry that such conditions as you were raised in do exist, but now that you are no longer a child you do not have to accept those "bad spells" have any substantial reality or power to affect you.

Sometimes when we lose "everything" it opens up the space for us to claim our divine Self and its heritage. I would suggest you go to the center of your heart and declare with absolute intention and connection to the source of Light/Life on Earth that these "spells" have NO POWER to hurt you ever again, that you renounce all thoughts and feelings that give these "spells" power, and that you are a child of the absolute and all-powerful, all-loving, all-wise, and all-intelligent GOD that is greater than any "spell." These "spells" have NO POWER to affect you if you consistently declare otherwise. Keep meditating on this until you see in your own experience that things are changing for the better.

To that end, it's always good if we can get our heart and mind working toward a more positive intention. If you can get a copy, please read "You can heal your life" by Louise Hay. Take the meditations to heart, and no one, no thing, can ever make you the victim of another ever again. May you be freed from your chains, and walk free as a child of GOD into your Divine purpose and life. Aum and blessings, Robert

Robert... Thank you, I loved the article! I have to say, I got the ebbie-jeebies because I just found you/your site only last week and I honestly don't know a soul who has ever heard of F.S.Shinn!! I purchased her book "The Game of Life and How to Play it" last year. I spotted this book while in the Hearst Castle years ago and thought I had to have it. Very strange ! :-)